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Drag Strip List
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia
Remembering . . .
California Drag Strips
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, entrance ticket to first Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races in 1964 at Riverside Raceway. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Baldwin Park
San Gabriel Valley Drag Strip [Old San Gabe], 1958
My dad, Al Morse, raced at San Gabriel Drag Strip in '58 on a motorcycle. He won his class many times.
Dave Morse
Bakersfield Drag Strip
My brother had a '29 roadster that we gutted out and installed a '48 Ford flathead on fuel. We ran that for about one year when at Bakersfield.
Larry Magdaleno
Minter Field Air Base, 1955
It was a big meet. But I did not want to tow that far, so I rode with some buddies. There was a great Top Eliminator field as the picture below shows. Now a neat thing happened on the last race for dragster class. The first car in the picture was Ernie Hashim's blown Chrysler, a heavy car, driver Bill Replogle. A 148mph car. They raced Hylton Drilling, a 130mph flathead. Now I was at the finsh line. MPH clocks are 66 feet on each side. Here comes Howard Hylton in the lead. They win by inches. Hashim roared by and broke the last light. Hylton was declared the winner at a time of 145mph!!! Later the Chrysler engine was installed in the light Hylton car and Hashim, Hylton, and Crossley won races for years after! At the same meet in 1956, the Hayward Head Hunters Emmit Cull and Ron Sterbenk had Top Time with 146mph.
Don Jensen
Bakersfield Smokers top fuel meet at Minter Field in 1955. This photo shows the dragsters entered in the Top Eliminator field..The first car nearest to the camera is Ernie Hashim's blown Chrysler dragster. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Bakersfield Smokers top fuel meet at Minter Field in 1955. Top eliminator run (bottom photo) pitted Fritz Voight (left) against Jim "Jazzy" Nelson. Courtesy of Don Jensen
The Cull & Sterbenk twin flathead-engined dragster garnered the top time at the two-day meet at Minter Field in May 1956. Courtesy of Don Jensen
This 1959 photo taken at Bakersfield focuses on the engine with front-mounted blower of the Hashim-Hylton-Crossley dragster. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Bakersfield Drag Strip in 1959. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Al Caldwell (facing camera) at Bakersfield Drag Strip in 1959. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Champion Speedway, 1970s
I raced there one time. I think it was in Brisbane, just off the freeway. It was a 1/8 mile track.. Champion Raceway.
Ron Lorenz
Oxnard Air Force Base, 1971-72
You have written a pretty accurate account [
Oxnard Air Force Base entry in
Location section of this website
] of the short-lived phenomenon that
National Dragster
called, "The Woodstock of Drag Racing." It was actually the Ventura County Fire Department that ordered the turn-away of the premiere throngs. The Highway Patrol was having fits at the freeway exits, and there was woefully inadequate crowd control, first aid, barriers, etc. Wildly successful, the unexpected cash flow inflated the financial egos of Ventura County Timing Association club organizers, and they saw dollar signs for future events. Greed overwhelmed common sense. When the City of Camarillo (who were granted first right of use refusal by the GAO) wanted to offset some of their infrastructure expense (police, fire, etc.) by setting up food concessions, the Ventura County Timing Association refused them. They saw the dollars in the hot dogs. In immediate retrospect, it was a pretty poor decision to lock out the landlord. The City of Camarillo could see no revenue sharing or benefit to their community, and logically gave the race organizers the boot. My brother, Nathan Duty, was the first president of the VCTA. Unable to bring order to the chaos fostered by overbearing auto parts store owners and other business whizzes, it was a very short tenure. He was not involved in the event planning at OAFB, nor any function thereafter. I did enjoy racing so close to home, rather than trek the hundreds of miles round-trip to the other SoCal tracks of the era. Lions, Irwindale, Orange County, and Carlsbad, were all well-organized, fun places to race. But there's no place like home. The seemingly endless run of concrete at OAFB was just 12 miles from my front door. During this era, Mickey Thompson and C.J. Hart were hanging on to AHRA sanctioning at Lions. My '61 Corvette competed in Super Stock Eliminator. It was the National Record Holder (set first at the AHRA World Championships in Fremont California, October 7, 1972) setting the marks for E.T. and Speed four times over a period of three years, and held until the class was retired. It was for both sanctioning bodies, the quickest legal 283-powered Super Stock (O.E. iron heads, no porting, flat tappet, factory intake manifold, etc.) running mid-11s at 120; 45 years ago. Here's a shot [see photo below) from "The Woodstock of Drag Racing," at Oxnard Air Force Base.
Rick Duty
Rick Duty's '61 Corvette, Oxnard Air Force Base. Courtesy of Rick Duty
Carlsbad Raceway, circa 1964-65
My great-aunt lived in Carlsbad, a short distance from the new drag strip, when I went there. I went to a race there soon after it first opened. My memories of the race are dim, but what sticks in my mind is the setting. It was so different, with the bleachers up behind the starting line. Very dramatic. For some reason, I also remember the packed sand of the pits, so very like the packed sand pathways in my Aunt Hazel's large garden on Hemlock Avenue.
Mel Bashore
Ticket stub and newspaper advertisement, Carlsbad Raceway. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Carlsbad Raceway, 1977
Carlsbad Raceway, June 1977, courtesy John Snapp
Morrow Field, 1957
I attended my first drag race at Colton in 1957. I don't ever remember it being an NHRA drag strip. It was always a fuel strip and NHRA had banned fuel. John Bradley was a consistent Top Eliminator in his fuel flathead dragster.
Lee Schelin
Colton Drag Strip, 1962
I crewed for Nick Van Wagner in '62, and ran my own Ardun-powered C/FD at Colton, same year. Still have trophy. Great place.
Dave Sorenson
Dave Sorenson with his Ardun-powered Sorenson & Brown C/FD at Colton in 1962. Courtesy of Dave Sorenson
Jim Van Wagner's Blair-Isky Special Chrysler-powered B/FD in 1962 at San Gabriel. Photo from
Drag News
, July 21, 1962, Jim Kelly, photographer. Courtesy of Dave Sorenson
Class trophy won by Sorenson & Brown C/FD at Colton in 1962. Courtesy of Dave Sorenson
Fontana Drag Strip/Fontana Drag City, 1960s
When growing up, I lived about twenty miles west of Fontana. I discovered drag racing and the Fontana strip before I even had a driver's license. Several times I rode my ten-speed bike over to watch the races, never quite making it back home before dark--to the worry of my parents. It was always too hard to leave before the races were over. I always tried to get there early. I had a favorite place to stand--on the west side, right next to the starting line. When I first started going, they had a flag starter and spotters at the end who would wave a white flag to indicate which lane won. In my scrapbook of drag race memories, I have a 2-page description of the New Year's Day race that I rode my bike along Foothill Boulevard (Route 66) to Etiwanda Avenue in 1964. It's fun to read what a "drag-race crazy" teenager (me) wrote over fifty years ago. There are lots of exclamation marks and the overuse of descriptive words like "hairy," "fantastic," and "amazing." It's embarrassing to read now. Lots of passion beat in that teenage breast. For instance, read my description of the first time I saw Wild Willy Borsch in his fuel altered: "A most amazing machine was here today representing the AA/FA class in the form of a red glass T. This fellow hooked a hydraulic moveable air foil onto his roll bar which completely overshadowed the driver compartment. It seemed to adjust to a level position at every vertical movement to right the situation of the body [whatever that means]. The huge Chrysler powerplant took this machine to the following clockings and the number 2 eliminator position: 9.23 at 176.81 on its first run; 9.49, 170.77; 10.09 ET, 168.85; 9.71 and 164.23. On his final run at dusk, his flame-throwing pipes caused my eyes to water while his first run covered me with rubber and exhaust to the hilt." And if that isn't enough, read what I wrote about the Frantic Four dragster. I went to high school with Stormin' Norman Weekly, who was in the class one year ahead of me. "Tom Ivo warmed up for his match race against the Frantic Four with a single of 8.09 at 190.66 MPH. The Weekly-Rivero-Fox-Holding number one fuel dragster in the nation had a warm-up run which was a sight to behold. I was standing just ten feet from his car when he went into one of those famed thundering, smoking wheelstands but managed to outdo himself in turning a fantastic 7.96 E.T. with a top end speed clocking of 199.10 MPH!" Enough of that. I have a couple of other memories of races there. Races at night were chilly. They used to put bon-fires in 50-gallon drums under the stands to try to keep people warm. Later they enclosed the base of the stands with sheet metal to try to keep the windy drafts at bay. At one night-time race, they held a running race to entertain the crowd. About 75 of us gathered on the finish line to run a quarter mile to the starting line. Many of the runners were in the race for laughs, with expansive beer bellies, but I was on the high school track team. There may have been a prize like a T-shirt or something. I didn't win, but came close. But the running made me sick. I went out to a dark corner of the pits and hurled my guts out. Not the best of memories.
Mel Bashore
Pit passes, entry tickets, newspaper clippings, photo of Brissette-Alexander A/FD taken from my favorite starting line vantage point. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Mooneyham-Ferguson-Jackson-Faust "Jungle 4" AA/FD, KMEN Drag Festival, August 1965, at Fontana Drag City. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Fremont Drag Strip, 1959-1960s
Fremont was put togther by Ron Laurence. Other owners were Herm Barnick (Little Bonneville] and Les Arnold. I was asked to join them and run it!! I designed the layout and surveyed it, doing a lot of the work. But my dad talked me out of the $10,000 investment for a 1/5th share. So Laurence reneged and ran it himself. Each share paid a good return and when sold twelve years later, $360,000 was realized for 1/5th share. So much for my dad's advice. At the same time, Sid Masters and Ric Richter came to me with a rusty old '41 Willys. They asked me to build them the most far-out A Gas Supercharged car ever! I did it! I drove it at at least sixteen meets at Fremont. I always won class. It got Drag News 1320 records. Best time was a 10.90et at 133mph on "pump gas." It was 735 horsepower. I had match races with other classes, also for Street Eliminator. Al Dal Porto's Willys modified pickup. running 129mph, was one who I raced a lot.
Don Jensen
Masters & Richter A/GS 1941 Willys, built and driven by Don Jensen. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Hammer Airfield, ca. 1952-53
I actually raced twice at Hammer Field in 1952 or 53. I was a membe of the Fresno Pandraggers. I had a '38 Chevy coupe that was basically stock except for a split manifold and was eliminated early. I remember one time when a modified Ford coupe was in line ahead of me and when he revved the engine, the modified cast-iron flywheel exploded and destroyed his legs. I was getting out of my car to help when the flagman yelled at me to stay in my car as it was not a pretty sight. I moved to Eureka in 1954 where I helped set up the Samoa drag strip that ends almost on the beach. I think Samoa started a year before Redding and both are still holding drag races.
Leon Warmuth
Ed Adney, a good friend of Leon's, stnads next to Leon's 1938 Chevy, with a foot on the running board. This photo was taken in Fresno on the day Leon drove his Navy buddy back to his base in San Diego. Leon had filled the hood vents on the Chevy and done some prep work towards painting the car. He sold it and moved to Eureka in 1954. Courtesy of Leon Warmuth
Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay Drag Strip, 1960s
When I was 18 I was a volunteer worker at Half Moon Bay drag strip just south of San Francisco. I usually was at the end recording and then passing out ET/speed slips as the cars came back to the pit area. I clearly remember many of the greats - Don Garlits, the Snake, Vic Hubbard, Sammy Hall and of course Denny Milani, who died in a single run at Half Moon Bay driving the Gotelli Speed Shop car.
Tom Cargill
Half Moon Bay Drag Strip, 1958
George Wulf's dragster was the first in Northern California to top 175 mph.. A member of the Hayward Head Hunters, this photo shows Wulf at Half Moon Bay in late 1958. In this race, Wulf (far car) beat Jim McClennan (near car). Courtesy of Don Jensen
Holtville Airstrip
I spent many a weekend at Holtville. As a SCCA race official, I worked as the starter there for regional and national sports car races. I remember Steve McQueen racing his Porsche there and many rather bizarre events with light aircraft landing or attempting to land on the runway. Several occurred during a race that entailed cars frantically trying to avoid the planes. On several occasions during the night, aircraft would overfly the area and land, at which time those of us who had camped out, would turn on our vehicles' headlights. The resulting panic of the dope runners was a source of constant amusement.
Bill Uerkvitz
Orange County International Raceway, circa 1966-67
During a brief visit home during my college years at Utah, I heard about a big funny car meet being held at OCIR. What drew me was the funny car called "Destroyer Jeep." That just sounded so cool. I had to see it. I drove down in my '59 VW. I was surprised how far away from the track the spectator stands on the north side were--at least that's a sliver of a memory I have of the race. There were lots of funny cars, but it is Gene Conway's Jeep that sticks in my memory.
Mel Bashore
"Destroyer Jeep" funny car, OCIR. Photo from Match Race Madness, courtesy of "Old Timer"
Orange County International Raceway, 1968
I raced my Fiat Altered at Orange County Raceway.
Loren Barnes
Loren Barnes in his Fiat Altered in 1968. Courtesy of Loren Barnes
Irwindale Raceway, 1966 AHRA Winter Nationals
In 1966 I was going to art school in Utah. A busload of us took a field trip to Southern California, ostensibly to see a Matisse Impressionist art exhibit in Los Angeles. I spent half a day at the museum, but then persuaded three of my fellow art students to join me for a day of drag racing at the AHRA Winternationals. That didn't endear us to our art professors, who thought we made a very poor decision. They thought our focus was misguided. I don't know. The racing seemed akin to beautiful art to me. One highlight for me was Don Nicholson's exciting first-ever maiden run in his Mercury Comet funny car. As he launched from the starting line, the orange-painted fiberglass body came unhinged from the frame and shot a hundred feet into the air. It landed on the gravel right in front of where we were sitting. on Feb. 12, 1966. That memory is more fresh than my recollections of the art exhibit.
Mel Bashore
Entrance ticket stubs and photograph of Walker-Geary AA/FR, 1966 AHRA Winternationals. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Skip Hess's A/GS Anglia "Skpper's Critter," Irwindale Raceway, December 1965. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Don Nicholson's funny car body went airborne on its first-ever pass at Irwindale on Feb. 12, 1966, at the AHRA Winter Nationals. This was the world's first flip-top funny car. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Irwindale Raceway, 1967
I raced a B/A at Irwindale, crewed for a number of cars, including the Hawkins & Webster 15oz coupe. Great place to race! The late Don Wilson owned the B/A roadster, I was a week out of Vietnam. This was my welcome back to the world. We set B/A mark at 131 mph with a gas 364" Chrysler. We added some nitro and grenaded it. Wilson and I went on to build "Panic" AA/FA, but I got married and Gary Hazen took over my share.
Dave Sorenson
Dave Sorenson driving the Wilson & Sorenson B/A at Irwindale in 1967. Courtesy of Dave Sorenson
Irwindale Raceway, 1972
Steve Gibbs managed Irwindale early, I was manager in 1972. When Lions closed, International Raceways bought the lease from Harry Snider, the founder of In-N-Out burgers. Steve Evans came over in 1973. We had the first 64 Funny Car Race.
Glenn Menard
Kingdon Drag Strip, 1956-57
I was only 20 years old when I built a twin-engined dragster with two Cad engines. Between being drafted, and losing 1-1/2 years, and then crashing it at Kingdon. It never came close to its best speeds. I think this was the best twin setup. It had much more traction than the [Freight] Train or Ivo. I was working on getting
the clutches to slip, building a stronger axle setup, then superchargers. I rolled it [at Kingdon] about 6 times and engines bouncing like basketballs down the strip at 140 mph, when a tire blew out. My buddy B'ho Kirkland was taking his first ride in it, so I could see it run. He got only a chipped tooth and lots of black and blue. Still proud of the idea.
Don Jensen
Don Jensen's twin-engined dragster. In 1956, he entered it in the Hayward Head Hunters club display at the famed Oakland Roadster Show. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Don Jensen's twin-engined gas dragster. He ran a gas dragster record of 155 MPH at Kingdon in February 1957. In this photo, the car appears when it was set up for Bonneville. Note the swing axles. Jensen
did not have money to finish the car to run at Bonneville, so he turned around the rear engine and ran two pinions with axle mounted solid for drags.
For a detailed history of Don Jensen's twin-engined dragster, as recounted by him, go to the
Two to Go
Courtesy of Don Jensen
Kingdon Drag Strip, 1950s
Don Jensen, an early California drag racer and member of the Hayward Head Hunters, wrote the following very interesting piece about the early racing years of Romeo "Dago" Palamides and his association with him. Palamides did a lot of his early racing at Kingdon.
Romeo was a member of Elmwood Auto Club in Oakland, California. He built, but never drove, track roadsters to run at Oakland Speedway in the late '40s and early '50s. My pard, Lee Scott, who I interviewed in 1990, raced against them at that time, said: "But for Jack Hagemann's car, Dago's were the nicest built and nearly unbeatable on pavement." In about '51 he entered the US Army and had a report of AWOL and trouble, was shipped to Korea with a tank outfit, where he told me of having dead tanks brought in, the body parts and uniforms had to be cleaned out, then he would arc weld the holes in the hulls and then they were rebuilt and saw combat again. He returned in late '53, after the war to find roadster racing was dying. He had a louver press and started on hot rods. Lee Scott met him again at Vic Hubbard's. At this time they were both building dragsters. For himself he built a beautiful belly tank that ran 208 mph at Bonneville and a "Shoe" dragster, DeSoto-powered (all show quality) [which he] ran 1954-1956. The dragster was a little squirrely and Dick Hubbard (Hubbard Cams) quit driving it. At the State Championship at Madera in 1954 with Wayne Boden (who made the dies for Dago's louver press) driving, made a couple 360s in the lights (told me by Lee Scott). Dago stuck some kid in it. He got upside down at Kingdon and even though it had little roll bar protection. The kid was strong and as the car skidded upside down hanging tight to the steering wheel he only got 'road rash' on his back and shoulders. Now a bit about how he lived (an important part of his story) in his mother's house on Mc Arthur Blvd. in Oakland, with a 30' x 40' shop in the back. He had a large hole in his pocket (race car); never had two dimes to rub together. The family lived on the wife's earnings. (John Walsh remembered going to lunch. Dago had just did a louver job, so cash in hand they went into the house and made hot dogs for his little kids, then lunch for himself at a nice restaurant). About this time, early 1956, Jim Ellison came to Dago for work with a Chrysler-powered sports car (John Walsh thought it was an Allard). That is how they hooked up. Jim was a principal in Harrin, Rickerd & McCone, a large machine shop company in San Francisco, He got hooked on dragsters. From then on he supplied most of the money for Palamides Racing. So Dago started on the Slingshot which was later shortened into the canopied car. This car, another show car, was finished mid-1956. It was about 115 inch W.B. of 1 ¼" tubing, first with the DeSoto then later a 331 cu. in. unblown. It ran 130 mph. Later he used a front blown Chrysler (Jerry Light of Vic Hubbards Speed shop told me Tony Capanna (Wilcap) told him it was the first engine on his dyno to pull 1000 HP). The car's problem was a torque converter that could not be started in neutral. It would jerk, load up and hydraulic rods. Also it was not fast off the line, although it had run near 150 mph. (I was gone then until May 1958). The car had been reconfigured into what you all know. I believe this was done in late 1957. In my Red Jones' interview (1990), he had a picture early '58 of the car with 8 carbs, 396 c.i.. and direct drive, with Red driving against Art Chrisman at Riverside. Red set the track ET record at 9.32. Red drove it several times before Pete took over and said it ran a bit better with injectors. At that meet the canopy latch broke off and ruined the windshield. Dago was pissed!! Red told him it was your bracket that broke. Pete Ogden's driving was brilliant at full throttle wheelstand starts. Pete told me he used the brake to limit front to about 3' high, also he sat behind rear-end so had a good view of smoke in center of slick to control it. This started out white with red trim, I think by Tommy the Greek. Then sometime when Pete was piloting it became silver with white strip; don't know why, maybe a nitro spill? This was the time they had run Garlits in Texas. Remember, as good as Pete was, they were not winning regularly in No. Cal. Pete told me they were treated like royalty, put up in a mansion for a week. So March meet '59, back to front drive blower. It was in this car that the famous 12-4130 conrods were made by Ellison at H, R, & M Machine Shop at the reputed cost of about $200 each. I think Dago blew more engines than all others in No. Cal combined! The rods were so strong that when the piston came apart, they would saw a block apart and not hurt the rod. Dago gave me a block to use in building my last dragster. After a couple of years he was down to 7 rods, but alloy rods were now available. Dago never set any speed records that I know of, running in 150s to low 160s. George Wulf had No. Cal. record at Kingdon, 175mph, Chrysler, top blower with a chassis I had built. I believe Donn Blount, a good buddy, was the last driver after Pete opened his own shop. At this point I will move into wheels '56, Dago's idea. '57 first ones made; '58 several cars using them. I think the rear was made first, later the spokes. I do not know the date, but sometime at the end of '58, very hush, hush. Ellison, who was very smart, had put many tens of thousand into Palamides Racing and could see the increasing potential of American Racing Equipment that Dago would not be able to exploit! I believe Ellison dictated the terms. Dago got ownership of all cars and engines and lots of equipment plus a small cash-out, about $20,000 for American Racing. Ellison was done with Palamides Racing for good. In mid-1959 I bought a set with the big 16" rears to use with hubs I had cast with Halibrand knock-offs. Ellison put steel inserts in for the knock-offs, No charge. I don't know the story of the raffle, but those "deals" were not uncommon then! Later in early '60s Dago bought Jack Friedlands dragster. He removed the converter and narrowed the rear end, mounting it solid to the frame. He built a Chrysler with two Roots blowers just to keep his hand in during the jet car era. I have no idea how it ran, nor anything about his jets. The last Palamides story I heard in the '70s was that he had put a very large deposit on a new home in Fremont, the contractor went broke! No house, no money. What goes around comes around! Romeo was not always well liked, but he was not afraid to try anything and do it beautifully, if not always right. I for one admired his drive and workmanship. He was one of a kind, an amazing character! R.I.P. "Dago."
Don Jensen
Romeo Palamides' D Lakester that ran 208 MPH at Bonneville in circa 1954. Courtesy of Don Jensen
The Desoto-powered "shoe" dragster that Palamides campaigned from 1954-56. Note the buffed tires.. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Another view of Palamides' Desoto-powered "shoe" dragster, his first dragster. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Palamides' second dragster, a slingshot with a' Desoto motor, was finished in mid-1956. It graced the cover of the November 1956 issue of
Hot Rod
Palamides' campaigned his third dragster from about 1957-60. Pete Ogden is the driver in the colored photo above. Courtesy of Don Jensen
The first paint job on Palamides''third dragster was white with red trim (below). Courtesy of Don Jensen
Palamides bought Jack Friedlands' dragster in the early '60s and did numerous modifications including this two-blower setup on the Chrysler powerplant. This was his fourth dragster, seen here at Redding Drag Strip in about 1961. Bill Butler collection, courtesy of Don Jensen
One of the incredibly strong 4130 connecting rods made by Jim Ellison that Palimedes used in his third dragster. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Kingdon Drag Strip, 1950s
Don Jensen joined the Hayward Head Hunters in 1954, later becoming its president. The members of the Head Hunters regularly racerd at Kingtdon. There were some well-known drag racers who were members of the Head Hunters including Gas Ronda, Red Case, Hank Vincent, and Al Hubbard. Jensen wrote the following history of the Head Hunters. a club that spanned the years 1949-60.
The Hayward Head Hunters (HHH) were started about 1949 by a group of kids that wanted to drag-race. In 1950 they met with C.H.P. officer Ezra Earhard to try to arrange to use the Hayward airport for drags. That didn't work out. Tracy started races in the summer of 1950 with Kingdon (Lodi) opening in May 1951. The club joined Valley Timing Association, which ran Kingdon for Bob Cress. That started the golden age of drag racing in Northern California. By 1954, with Kingdon running 20 or so meets per year, plus some VTA-only 4/10ths-mile record days, the HHH started to dominate the 10 or so clubs in VTA, the reason being you had to run fast to be asked to join! Members were given a club trophy when breaking 105 mph and 125 mph at the drags. I joined HHH in the fall of 1954, and by mid-1955, HHH held at least half of the records at Kingdon, including at least 3 members breaking each other's top speed records: Red Jones, John Jipson, and Al Hubbard.
The active members before 1954:
George Santos
1950 – '34 Coupe flathead (FH) – 90 mph
1953 – A Hot Roadster FH– 115 mph
1955 – '32 Coupe FH – 101mph record.
1956 - '32 coupe Chevy - 109.75 record.
1958 - C Dragster Chevy 9.29et-161.87mph record
1960 - B Dragster Chevy. Bln.175mph record.
Danny Lucero
50/54- '32 roadster FH 110+
Drove many dragsters; hard to beat!
Jim Darcy
54/56 32 coupe altered FH- 105+
Red Case
Model A coupe FH
Went to L.A. driving dragsters
Red died of pneumonia a few days following a serious crash at Vaca Valley in 1959 driving Clark Cagle's dragster.
George Cramphorn
Irving Orth
Ronny Sterbenk
1954/58 - Rear engine '34 coupe - 126.81 record 1956
Lee Shears
1951- B roadster- 100.56
Sal Riele
1951- B roadster- 100.56
1956- '32 Street roadster
Joe Feliepe
1956 – '32 coupe GMC 6 C gas
1957 - '32 coupe Chevy B gas- 13.12et 109mph record
1959 - Model A Altered Chevy
Tiny Guzumas
1953- '39 coupe FH - 95mph street record
Arthur (Red) Jones
1949 – '36 coupe fuel FH, 90+mph
1952- dragster FH- 125mph record
Ran belly tank
Built 1st slingshot dragster 1953
Built twin Chrysler streamliner 1955
Drove many dragsters until 1959
John Jipson
1955 dragster – 135.80mph record
Club meetings were a wonderful mix of comradery and LOUD arguments, usually led by Ronny Sterbenk on whether the club color was chrome yellow or golden rod yellow and whether Iskenderian, Potvin, or Howard ground the best cams and who would beat who next race. In the fall of 1955 after winning VTA's top club trophy 3 years running, and more members joining all the time, we voted to do a club display in the world famous Oakland Roadster Show! Now several of us had had cars in the show before, but not a club effort. It really was a great common goal, with all members working on each other's car, depending on our individual talents; painting, sheet metal, welding or loaning parts. We held a week-end scrap drive, raising hundreds of dollars towards the cost. In February 1956 we had 16 cars entered in the show from four (4) dragsters to a custom 1941 Ford chopped convertible with Olds power. I doubt any club ever had that many cars in a 1950 era show! We had a sign claiming to be "The Top Drag Club" and that spring we were challenged by the "Pacers" of San Francisco and Seaside, a great group of racers! We paired off at Kingdon. When we did not have a car to match a Pacer car, the HHH would put up the next lower. Example: our B Comp Coupe against a Pacer A Comp Coupe. It was great fun. I think we never lost one match race out of about a dozen!! 1956 was our best year. The Byrne Brothers set the track record until the Hensley-Cook roadster and Ernie Hashim pushed it over 150 mph. But HHH still held at least half of the track records. We were fielding 15 to 20 cars at most meets and was VTA top points club again by two to one. 1957 was another good year, except I got drafted. I ran a gas dragster record of 155 mph in February 1957, but was gone till mid-1958. George Wulf had gotten the track record back at 175 mph for the HHH in a chassis I built. The club again had VTA trophy. In 1959 HHH was strong, but interest in VTA waned because of Fremont opening much closer. Our club members raced just as much, but interclub competition faded out and by the end of 1960 the club disbanded. We all remained friends with many going on to further honors: Gas Ronda in funny cars, George Wulf with Gary Ormsby in top fuel, Al Hubbard and the Forsburg Bros. in top fuel; George Santos in top alky dragster; Doug King and the Walsh Brothers setting many Bonneville records and joining the 200 mph club! Nostalgia dragsters were built and ran by Ron Sterbenk, Marty Byrne, Doug King and George Wulf.
Marty Byrne
1956- dragster FH- 136.86mph record
Don Jensen
1951-'40 coupe, 66mph
1952-'40 coupe, D Gas, 82mph
1954/55-'40 coupe, Cad, B Gas,13.02, 99mph record
1956/57-Gas dragster, 2 Cads,10.03, 155mph record
1959-'41 Willys, Olds Blown, A Gas Supercharged, 10.90, 133mph record
1965-drag bike, gas, 250cc Yamaha,11.90, 119mph record
Ron Sterbenk
1954/58-'34 competition rear-engine coupe FH, 126.81mph record
Bob Raymond
1954/58-Austin competition coupe, B Comp. 118mph record, A Comp. 128,12mph record
Gaspar (Gas) Ronda
1954/57-Buick Century. Owned stock class in Calif.ornia, hundreds of trophies & records
1956- Buick D Gas, 93.85 record
John (Ron) Francis
1951 Model A roadster FH
'40 coupe
Charlie Booth
1955-'32 coupe Dodge Ram C Altered record
1956-Crosley Dodge Ram C Comp Coupe record
1956- dragster Dodge Ram
Bob Rosen
1955-'41 convertible Olds
1956-'32 coupe
Dave Jawad
1954- '40 coupe FH, B-gas, 95mph
Henry (Hank) Vincent
1949/60-Built more hot rods than anyone, about 15 or so (including
Top Banana
fuel dragster)
1956- Model A Coupe FH, A altered, 108.48mph
1956-dragster FH, 130+
1958 - dragster Chevy. C Fuel, 9.29, 161.87mph record
1959 – B Fuel, 175mph record
1960 – Hank was killed at Fremont Drag Strip in a 170mph crash in his B/FD
Emmit Cull
1952-belly tank Wayne Chevy. 6
1956- dragster, 2 FH- 145.87 mph record
1959/60-dragster, 2 Chevys. 170mph
George Wulf
1956- '32 coupe, Cad, A Altered, 115mph record
1956 dragster, Cad., 140s
1958- dragster, Chrysler Blown, 175mph record
Al Hubbard
1952-'32coupe FH, 90s
1953-dragster FH, 125mph
1955- dragster FH, 138mph
1958- dragster Chevy, 160s
1960 - dragster Chevy, 170s
Don Block
1954-'32 roadster FH-105.66mph record
Brian Bernou
1956-'32 roadster Chrysler 106.04mph
1957- rear engine roadster
1958-Model A panel truck, B Fuel, 116mph record
Doug King
1955- dragster FH
Paul Leuschner
1955-'27 Model T roadster, A Roadster, 117.70mph
Tony Vincent
1955-'39 2 door, D gas, 85mph+
Jerry Sechler
1955-'36 coupe, FH, C Gas, 90mph
Donn Blount
1955- '39 coupe Olds. C Gas, 90mph+
1956-'32 roadster Olds, 120s record
John Walsh
1956-'32 roadster Olds, 129+ record
Tom Walsh
1959 - dragster Chrysler
Jack Friedland
1957-dragster Chrysler, 150s
Ralph Pilolli
1956-'29 Model A roadster
Dick Bonvacino
1955- '29 Model A roadster, FH, 120mph
B'ho Kirkland
1955- '32 Sedan FH, B Fuel, 108.27mph record
1956- A roadster, 120mph
Lowell Nelson
1955-'34 comp coupe, FH, 110mph+
1958-rear-engine roadster
John Middleton
1961- C Hot Roadster, 10.29, 143.54mph record
Jerry Fosberg & Denny Fosberg
1958- '29 Model A roadster Olds
1960- Fiat roadster, Olds
Tom Odgers
1958- Comp. coupe, Olds
Bill Stanton
Lloyd (Larry) Anderson
Bob Goodman
Fuel coupe
Bob Laughlin
Bob Lasterie
1956 – '39 coupe Chevy,. C Gas, 94.85mph
Jerry Light
Owner of Vic Hubbards Speed Shop
Compiled by Don Jensen,
former HHH president,
submitted to
Drag Strip List
, 3/19/2017
This photo shows some of the sixteen cars entered by the Hayward Head Hunters in their club display at the 1956 Oakland Roadster Show. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Kingdon Drag Strip, 1951
At the first race held at Kingdon on Memorial Day in 1951, the top time was 116mph by a '27 T roadster, owner Al Dal Porto and driver Ray Righetti. At the next race, Ralph Linde ran 120mph in a '27 T roadster. That day I turned 67mph in a stock '40 Ford. I went home and pulled the motor. I moved up to 82mph in D Gas. In October 1952, Red Jones set a record of 125mph.
Don Jensen
Kingdon Drag Strip, 1950s
John Jibson's flathead dragster in 1955 at Kingdon. Courtesy of Don Jensen
John Jibson's flathead dragster, a Kingdon record holder in 1956 Courtesy of Don Jensen
Marty Byrne's flathead-powered dragster set a Kingdon record in 1955 with a 137 mph run. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Romeo Palamides (far) racing against Jack Friedland (near) in 1956 at Kingdon Drag Strip. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Al Hubbard's dragster at Kingdon in 1954. Take note of the strip of peach pits drying on the ground behind the men.. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Hayward Head Hunter members Charlie Booth and Bob Rosen set a record at Kingdon in 1954 in this C Altered. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Bob Raymond set several records at Kingdon in competition coupe classes with his candy red Austin. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Kingdon Drag Strip, 1951-71
Don Jensen wrote,
"Bob Cress may have been the nicest strip operator ever. I interviewed him in March 1990. He was 70 years old, but was in the mid-stages of Parkinson's Disease. With his wife's help, I spent almost five hours with them. Following are highlights of my interview with him."
In 1950, he and Ezra Earhart (California Highway Patrol), Dick Jones, Bill Schaefer, and Billy Highfield (a local promoter), went to Santa Ana to learn. Kingdon, at Lodi, ran the Memorial weekend in 1951, and almost every two weeks thereafter, through 1971. Bob said, "There was a first attempt at forming a national group more than a year before NHRA. I don't have the date." A meeting was called at Bakersfield by Ezra Earhart, and Chuck Browning, both of the California Highway Patrol. Attending that meeting was the Northern California Timing Association, Cal-Neva, Valley Timing Associaiton, and SCTA was represented by Wally Parks, and others. It was called the American Hot Rod Association. Tiny Snell was hired to be the secretary. That was a most important job because he had an airplane. Bob thought that Lou Baney was the first president. Wally Parks gradually took over and it became NHRA. The first paid runs at Kingdon were in 1953 or 1954. Hut Watkins and Kenny Lowen came up running a Hot Roadster. Bob gave them 5 bucks for dinner. They thought it was the greatest thing. It was their first paid professional race. That same year, Don Montgomery got $5 tow money for his Buick-powered Nash and a donated motel room. Later in 1955, the Top Eliminator got a $25 bond. Then in 1959, Garlits got $1,500 to make a contracted number of runs. Bob had books on Bakersfield that he loaned to Jon Lundberg of Lundberg, Inc. in Chicago, who wrote a story on it.
Notes compiled by Don Jensen
of 1990 interview with Bob Cress
Hayward Head Hunters
In April 2017, the Hayward Head Hunters held their tenth reunion in California. Don Jensen said that about twenty of the old Head Hunters attended the first reunion and only about eight old members were expected to attend the tenth reunion.
This photo shows attendees at the second or third reunion, which had about fifteen old Head Hunters in attendance. The others included fellow racing friends. Don Jensen is on back row, far right in yellow shirt. Jack Hagemann is seated wearing a bright red jacket. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Long Beach
Lions Drag Strip, circa 1967
I only went to Lions once, on a date with the girl (Karen) who I would marry. I have just a few memories from that race. One was the entrance road. Maybe I'm misremembering, but it seemed like we entered on the north side of the race track on a graveled dirt road. We parked in a dirt parking area, then walked to buy our entrance tickets at a little booth by the spectator entrance. Somehow my first view of the race track didn't meet up with the image that I had built in my mind of this place where so many great drag racers had raced. It all looked so industrial--instead of magical, I guess. What drew me to take the long drive into Long Beach was a chance to see a jet dragster race--a first for me. One of the "Untouchable" jet dragsters built by Romeo Palamides made a few exhibition runs.
Mel Bashore
Entrance ticket stub and miscellaneous newspaper clippings about Lions Drag Strip. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Lions Drag Strip, 1956
The May 5, 1956 race at Lions drag strip was the last race my father ever competed in. The interesting thing is that my father's motorcycle was a 1943 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead motor with a 1930 VL frame with Triumph forks. I guess who ever write the newspaper clip only noticed the forks, therefore the mistake.
Guy Krant,
son of Lloyd Krant
Long Beach Press-Telegram
, May 14, 1956. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Lions Drag Strip, 1955-56, 1966
Their first race was the week after the NHRA Great Bend championship. I drove from Great Bend to Long Beach. I ran B Gas in my Cad-engined '40 Ford. Again 99mph. There were more cars than they could handle. It took hours to make a run. In summer 1956, at their first 2-day championship, about eight Hayward Head Hunter cars went down. All thr big names were there. We came home with several trophies. In the summer of 1966, I had been running a 250cc [15 cu. in.] drag bike. It was a popular class because of 250cc road racing. Bob Braverman, a
Cycle Magazine
editor, called us to come to match race LA'.s 3 fastest! We ran each one and beat them handily. Next I ran for Middle Eliminator, beating a 130mph, 375 cubic inch Corvette and a 126mph, 100 cubic inch Harley!!
Our time 11.90 et, 118mph. Only 15 cubic inch world record.
Don Jensen
Don Jensen's 250cc drag bike that he raced in 1966. It had an aluminum frame and weighed 160 pounds. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Saugus Field, 1952
My father won the second aniversary drag race at Saugus. The newspaper clip read "Krant set New Time at Saugus." "In the Second Aniversary meet at Saugus last Sunday L.W. Krant set the fastest time ever recorded at the strip." At the bottom of the list it shows Open- L. W. Krant . . . . . . . 129.33. I have the clock trophy and wrtten by hand under the base of the trophy it says June 29, 129.33. One of my father's more treasured trophies was sponsored by Duncan Homes with a car on the top. My father drag raced a bored-out Harley. The large trophy for its time was for top qualifier and my father's motorcyle was very quick, but did not always set top MPH. He won and the trophy has a date of July 5, 1954.
Guy Krant,
son of Lloyd Krant
Top qualifier trophy sponsored by Duncan Homes, won on July 5, 1954, by Lloyd Krant, Saugus. Courtesy of Guy Krant
Trophy awarded to Lloyd Krant, Saugus, June 29, 1952, for setting strip record. Courtesy of Guy Krant
Ontario Motor Speedway, 1973
When Garlits came out with the rear engine car, we were pretty well obsolete overnight. We had Don Long build us a car. That's the car we got in the 5 Second Club with [Iron Horse with Dan Richins driving]. We were number 7. At the time, we went a 5.93, maybe somebody else, maybe Moody or somebody had gone maybe a little faster. Most of they guys got in there with 5.99s, 5.98s. We went 5.93 and thought we were OK. The same day we got in, John Stewart in the Keeling & Clayton car. He was just a kid then, about eighteen. He got in the same day we did. I think we had the number three engine from Donovan. Donovan really liked us. Dan Richin's dad was Donovan's age. He'd go to races with us. Then Dan worked for the railroad. Donovan had been an engineer up in Alaska on trains. Because we had a car called the "Iron Horse," he knew we didn't have any money. He kind of took us under his belt. I think we got number three. I think Donovan-Creitz had the first Donovan engine. John Wiebe, I think, got the second. I think we got block number three. And, hell, I think we run that thing for about four years until we hurt it once bad. Even then, I think somebody bought it. Then we went with Donovan heads, too, instead of the old Chrysler heads. By then, Donovan made his own heads. At the first Supernationals, that's the first time anybody ever heard of the "Iron Horse." I think we ran Tony Nancy on the first run. We were really running good, then we hurt our engine. Larry Aiello was there with the "Want Bird." So we put his engine in. It wouldn't get out of its own way when we put his engine in, with the same tune-up. His parts were different. I think Jerry Glenn beat us in the semis. We went quite aways in that first Supernationals.
Rex Pearmain, telephone interview
with Mel Bashore, August 14, 2017
Pomona Drags, 1960s
I began going to the drag races at Pomona in about 1960. I was fourteen. We lived in Claremont, about seven miles northeast of the L. A. County Fairgrounds. It was torture to hear the blip-blips of the fuelers as their sounds reverberated up to our house. When it got to be too much, I begged my parents to let me ride my ten-speed bike down to the drag strip. I did a lot of begging--and a lot of pedaling. I generally got there in time to see the eliminations. I stood, along with about fifty other guys, outside the fence on the north side of the strip. There were railroad tracks there that gave you a good view of the starting line, the flag starter, and race track. The railroad tracks were about thirty feet north of the fence. The chan-link fence was covered with canvas so you couldn't see the dragster push-down lane, which was just on the other side of that fence. But you could hear the push trucks coming toward you real good as they fired up the dragsters. They generally caught fire right in front of us. Talk about exciting! There was a police officer there to make sure we didn't get any closer to the fence than those railroad tracks. Sometimes when the officer was busy keeping order, someone would dash up to the fence to try to peek through tiny gaps in the canvas. My friend, Chas Holt, and I, rode our bikes down to see the first Winternationals in February 1961. Being cheap, we snuck into the race by speeding across the massive parking lot on the far south end. I went to the first four Winternationals events. In fact, in 1964, I ditched school to go to the Friday opening day of the Winternationals. I was supposed to go into L.A. that day with a few other high school kids who were receiving art awards, but I ditched that, too. My mother never forgave me for that. I also got a lecture in the principal's office for that little escapade. But the pull of drag racing was just too strong for me. I clipped every article about drag racing that was printed in our newspaper and put them in a scrapbook. I kept notes about some of the races, drafting my own articles. For instance, I wrote a page about a regular, ordinary race held on July 21, 1963. "The usual number of National Record holders in this area in attendance included Tom Sturm, Jack Clifford in his L/S '54 Hudson from Los Alamitos, and Willy Cossey from Baldwin Park, along with such well-known stockers as Gas Ronda, Performance Associates, and Bill's Service Chevy from Manhattan Beach." There were a couple of new cars, making their first runs. Horsepower Engineering debuted a new A/FD. Airline Auto Sales from Pomona had a new D/FD. Gary Cagle had a new lengthened yellow D/FR. But the one that I gushed over most was the new Stellings & Hampshire AA/FD. I was amazed to hear over the P.A. system that Jeep Hampshire had recently upped the Pomona track record to 7.60 seconds. That was .15 seconds faster than the "incredible" 7.75 that I saw Tommy Ivo run at Pomona a month earlier. I also wrote that, at that race, I learned that they were going to fence in that area on the railroad tracks to keep us freeloaders from watching the races for free. They did. We had to move further north to watch from a liquor store parking lot, but it just wasn't the same as the favored railroad tracks location. My regular bike treks to watch the Pomona Drags were a big part of my teenage life.
Mel Bashore
Porter & Ries A/FD, from Pomona, at 1963 NHRA Winternationals. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Newspaper ads from
Pomona Progress Bulletin
and photo of Don Garlits' "Swamp Rat V" at 1963 Winternationals. The ads repeatedly misspelled Garlits's last name. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Charles "Boogie" Scott (in front of car), Gary Lee (leaning on motor), and Richard Thompson (from Santa Ana, in white shirt), at 1963 NHRA Winternationals. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Jack Chrisman (in dark jacket), with his Mickey Thompson Enterprises dragster, at 1963 NHRA Winternationals. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Art Malone (right), at 1963 NHRA Winternationals. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Pomona Drag Strip, 1953
This trophy is from the first NHRA/AMA event held April 12, 1953 at Pomona Drag Strip. My father won the AMA event and challenged the NHRA champion, the Bean Bandits, and barely beat them. So he was the unofficial Top Eliminator of the whole event.
Guy Krant,
son of Lloyd Krant
Lloyd Krant, staging at Pomona Drag Strip during qualifying, April 12, 1953. Courtesy of Guy Krant
Courtesy of Guy Krant
Pomona Drag Strip, 1952, 1955
My first time at Pomona was in November 1952, but only to watch. On the Fourth of July, 1955, there was a 3-day race. It was the biggest drag race ever held to that time. Hundreds of cars. About nine Hayward Head Hunter's cars went to it, headed by Al Hubbard. He partnered with Lee Scott's dragster. On Saturday at Pomona they ran 132mph. Mickey Thompson ran just at 140mph, but blew up all three days!! On Sunday, we went to Santa Ana. We did that because on Saturday and Sunday at Pomona, it was single runs. Somehow we found out Santa Ana ran on Sunday, so most., but not all of us went there, then back to Pomona on Monday. On Monday, Lee ran a 10.40 et, 136mph. Calvin Rice, who had not lost in six months, turned 10.17et, 138mph. At Lee's request, due to the long drive home, the first race of the day was against Rice. They were the two fastest cars there! Lee led most of the way. Rice said he thought he lost, but he won in the lights. Head Hunters went home with several trophies. I lost the last round in B Gas at 99mph to Chuck McCandle's 101mph! Maybe the most memorable meet ever!
Don Jensen
Mickey Thompson set the top speed at Pomona on July 4, 1955. Look close at this one-of-a-kind race car body. Regarding it, Don Jensen said, "And yes, that body is cardboard and tape!!" Courtesy of Don Jensen
Ramona Drag Strip, 1963-64
As a kid I raced at Ramona Drag Strip near San Diego, California, in my Mom's '56 Chevy 6 cylinder powerglide. As I recall ET was over 20 seconds at just over 70 mph. A sad memory from the same location is the February 23, 1964, death of John Wenderski who crashed his "Black Beauty" Top Fuel machine and died. I recall being horrified seeing the "Black Beauty" crash. Until that time it had all been fun. .I was only 17 at the time myself and that was my closest encounter with death to that point. I have continued to race and follow drag racing much of my life and have attended many national events, but that death is the only one I've been on hand to witness.
Jim Garren
This is the 1956 Chevy 210, the car that Jim Garren borrowed from his mother to race at Ramona in about 1963. Courtesy of Jim Garren
Redding Dragstrip
According to NHRA, northern California's Redding Dragstrip and Samoa Dragstrip both became NHRA member tracks in 1953. Redding is about 6 months older than Samoa. The Shasta Roadsters car club that started the Redding Dragstrip said they had some unsanctioned racing starting as early as 1951. Thank you for this great work of yours.
Bill Wood
Track Manager
Redding Dragstrip
Riverside Raceway, 1964 Hot Rod Magazine Championships
My brother and I drove to Riverside in our 1950 Ford coupe. This was my first time at Riverside. I tucked him into the trunk to cut our entry fee in half. He was embarassed to get out of it in the parking lot. Before the race began, I wanted to drive on a part of the road course for fun. We drove the high-centered coupe on the chicane, feeling like it might tip over on the high-banking course. We wandered through the pit area, seeing Miss Universe and Miss Hurst Shifter, Linda Vaughn. That sticks in my memory for some reason. We spent much of the day down at the end of the track. You had a good view of the cars as they came under the bridge and the whine of the blowers sounded great from there. They made a sweeping turn off the track to the left, with their chutes billowing behind them. Some racers let us help them gather their chutes. Mostly I just stood around and galked. We took a lot of pictures. Later in the day, we went back to see Craig Breedlove make a run in his streamlined dragster. There were a lot of delays in him making his run. His runs turned out to be a big disappointment as he didn't achieve what he was hoping to run. I seem to recall its speed being in only the mid-180s, but his car sure looked fast.
Mel Bashore
Mel Bashore, at end of Riverside Raceway shutdown area, with Connie Kalitta's "Bounty Hunter" AA/FD following a time trial run, at 1964 Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Denny Milani, driver of Ted Gotelli Special AA/FD, after a run of 7.75 at 204.54 mph, at 1964 Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races. Courtesy of Mel Bashore (at left)
Tom McEwen, in the Yeakel Plymouth Special AA/FD, after clocking a world record run of 7.52 at 211.7652 mph, at 1964 Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Jerry Andrews, at end of a run, in which he was disqualified for crossing the center line, at 1964 Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races. Craig Bashore (in dark shirt). Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Dyer-Van Luven AA/FD, following a 7.85 et and 200.88 mph run, at 1964 Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races. Craig Bashore (in dark shirt). Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Helen Sachs & Sons X/FX 1964 Mercury Comet, driven by Jack Chrisman (sitting in driver's seat), at 1964 Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races. It was the world's first blown & injected nitro funny car. Courtesy of Mel Bashore
Riverside Raceway, ca. 1963=64
I don't remember the year, probably late '63 or early '64. But the only time I raced at Riverside, it was a 1/2 mile track, not the 1/4 mile. I didn't think I was ever going to get to the end.
Ron Lorenz
Salinas Municipal Airport, 1949
I ran a '36 Ford Phaeton, chopped and channeled, hot flathead. Because of that, I had to run Super Modified. No chance. At the first race, there was a big turnout. Lots of stockers and street racers. I don't think they had clocks! Just four classes: Early and Late Stock, Modified, and Super Modified.
Arthur "Red" Jones,
interviewed by Don Jensen, June 1990
John Jipson (n near dragster), a Hayward Head Hunter, racing at Salinas in 1955. Courtesy of Don Jensen
San Carlos
San Carlos Raceway (Tidelands Circuit), 1953
At San Carlos Raceway, it was 1/5th mile. Now if you did not stop, a channel with 3 feet of water awaits you! Hayward Head Hunters George Santos and Danny Lucero were running a Hot Roadster over 100 mph in the fifth mile. They blow a clutch and bellhousing, cut the brake lines, car and
Danny went for a swim!! I won D Gas at 70 mph.
Don Jensen
San Diego
Paradise Mesa Drag Strip, 1953
My father won the second NHRA event there at Paradise Mesa, on July 17, 1953. NHRA and the AMA sponsored their second event there. My father again won for the motorcycles and again challenged the winners of the hot rods which was Dode Martin and beat him.
Hot Rod
magazine this time gave my father credit for top eliminator in their magazine.
Guy Krant,
son of Lloyd Krant
Top Eliminator trophy won by Lloyd Krant at Paradise Mesa on July 17, 1953. Courtesy of Guy Krant
Paradise Mesa Drag Strip, 1950s
Courtesy of Don Jensen
Paradise Mesa Drag Strip
I remember the Paradise drag strip well. On the odd weekend, my father would take my mother and I up to the airfield in our '41 Caddy. He'd let me wheel the monster around the runway while sitting on his lap. One Sunday we went up for another "lesson" and encountered a fatal drag racing accident. A '36 Ford coupe went off against a Harley motorcycle and at about the half-way mark, the bike drifted into the side of the Ford. The rider lost control and his left leg was caught by the right rear bumper of the Ford. The impact threw him back over the rear wheel of the machine and his head hit the asphalt. The bike and car locked together and by the time the Ford stopped the poor guy was dead. The images of his remains have stuck with me for the last 66 years and are too gory to recount here. One of the contributing reasons for the strip's closing was the Bean Bandits' revolutionary "rail" dragster over-powered the track's available runoff area. It suffered a braking problem and shot off the end of the strip through a barbed wire fence and on to Paradise Valley Road, striking a car. Congratulations on producing such a great site!
Bill Uerkvitz
Hourglass Field, 1960
Though I was not at Hourglass Field for the drags, I was at the infamous El Cajon Boulevard riots. However I was not there as a participant. I was on my way in my '54 Austin Healy to a local coffee house, the "Upper Cellar" and luckily, I was able to pull into a friend's sports car dealership (he sold Lotus race cars) and stayed there until I could make my way out of the riot. A close friend at the time was a municipal court judge and a drag racer, and hot rodder. He helped promote the establishment of a new racing facility. We had offices in the same building and I'd park my Healey next to his "bitchin" '36 Ford coupe that was his daily driver.
Bill Uerkvitz
San Jose
Little Bonneville Drag Strip, 1955
Little Bonneville was built and run by Herm Barnick. It was a fun place, but it had a short shutoff, so no fuel cars liked it. It had a banked turn at the end. It was not good for more than 20mph. In 1955, I won about seven straight in B Gas at Little Bonneville. Gene La Blanc had the record at 134mph. Dave Holder tried to top it with an Ardun dragster. He ended up literally covered with cow manure, after going through the fence into a dairy's yard!!!
Don Jensen
Don Jensen wrote: "Me and all my buddies at Little Bonneville after winning!" They are sitting on Jensen's 1940 Ford B/G coupe. Jensen wrote, "I paid $75 for it so no problem with the herd [sitting] on it." Courtesy of Don Jensen
Don Jensen holding a trophy he won in B/G with his 1940 Ford B/G coupe.at Little Bonneville Drag Strip. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Don Jensen racing his 1940 Ford B/G coupe.at Little Bonneville Drag Strip in 1955. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Don Jensen's 1940 Ford B/G coupe, at Little Bonneville in 1955, with the new paint job prior to going to the NHRA Nationals at Graat Bend. Courtesy of Don Jensen
San Leandro
Oakland Stadium Speedway, 1952
I put the hot motor in a gutted '38 coupe and started running alcohol. Ran Lodi, but Oakland was
nearer. We won three weeks in a row! There was a real hot dog running at Oakland and my guys said, "Let's blow the doors off this guy." And we did!! I ran around the high bank. I thought you had to turn the wheel to the left as you came off the banking. Wrong! I almost went into the infield!
Arthur "Red" Jones,
member of Hayward Head Hunters,
interviewed by Don Jensen, June 1990
Oakland Stadium Speedway, 1952
My father was Emmett Cull. He built dragsters and was mentioned in
Hot Rod Magazine.
My dad ran around with Ronnie Sterbenk. They loved their cars.
[Editor's note: Emmett Cull first began winning drag races in 1952 at Oakland Stadium Speedway. In 1954, he was a member of the Oakland Clutch Busters car club. He raced his fuel-injected Chevy-powered dragster to speeds upwards of 140 MPH at the Winters strip. In 1956, he raced a twin-engined dragster, becoming the first racer to top 140 MPH at Kingdon. Diane also said that her father raced at the "Reno flats." Don Jensen also said that Cull raced at Bakersfield's Minter Field and at Lodi. Cull's friend, Ron Sterbenk of San Leandro, had a rear-engined modified coupe that he raced successfully at Kingdon in 1956.]
Diane Cull Tyson
These photos date from circa 1952, when Cull was winning races at Oakland Speedway. Courtesy of Diane Tyson
Don Jensen listed Cull as runnng a 6-cylinder Chevy powered belly tank car in 1952. Could this be it? Courtesy of Diane Tyson
All photos courtesy of Diane Tyson
This is the dual-engined dragster that Cull raced to track records at Kingdon in 1956. The bottom photo shows the car in the Hayward Head Hunters club display at the February 1956 Oakland Roadster Show. Don Jensen wrote that the front motor was a Wayne Chevy and the rear engine was a flathead, running on fuel. This car was among the first ten twin-engined dragsters ever built. Courtesy of Diane Tyson
This is a good photo of Emmitt Cull and a close-up (right) of the engine in the above photo. Courtesy of Diane Tyson
Santa Ana
Santa Ana Drag Strip, 1953
My father won Top Eliminator of the Third Aniversary Race at Santa Ana on June 28th, 1953. He beat out [Art] Chrisman with a run of 127.80.
Guy Krant,
son of Lloyd Krant
Hot Rod Magazine
photo of Lloyd Krant and Art Chrisman at June 28, 1953 race at Santa Ana. Courtesy of Guy Krant
Santa Ana Drag Strip, 1955
On July 4th, 1955, the Hayward Head Hunters, Al Hubbard and Lee Scott turned 138mph, and got Top Eliminator. The "Bustle Bomb" got Top Time at 148mph. I won Heavy Gas in my Cad-engined '40 Ford. My final run was against Peggy Hart in her Cad-engined '55 T Bird. She was the strip owner's wife and the only girl I ever raced. Hayward Head Hunters won 5 trophies.
Don Jensen
Santa Ana Drag Strip, 1951
I got into the racing bug right after the war. They started the midgets running at Soldier Field. I used to go down there every night in 1946. I bought a Whizzer and mounted it on the bicycle. Then I got into motorcycles. I built my first hot rod in 1947. A buddy of mine, Gordie Potter, had moved with his parents from Park Ridge, Illinois, out to Hawthorne, California near L. A. My friend, John Stone, and I drove out to California from Illinois in 1951 on a two-week vacation and visited him. I had my '41 Cadillac at the time. An engine that I had built up in there was the flathead Caddy. Originally it was 346 cubic inches. It was bored an eighth over. It was like 373 cubic inch with Reo truck pistons in there and Model A wrist pins and a bunch of stuff. An Edmunds manifold with a pair of 97s. So we drove out there and one day, we went over to visit Gordie. He said, "Have you been to the drag strip?" I said, "No. I don't know anything about it." So he said, "Well, you've got to go." We picked him up on a Sunday to go over to Santa Ana. When we got close to the place, he said, "I'm not paying to get in there." My buddy said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Stop the car." So I pulled over to the side. Gordie said, "Open the trunk." I opened the trunk and Gordie crawled in the trunk. He didn't pay to get in. He was a pretty sharp guy, but a crazy guy. He was running a '32 Ford roadster, a regular hi boy, with a Chrysler Hemi in it. This is 1951. August of '51. So we went out there. I ran the Caddy there. I got several pictures, at least a half a dozen, maybe more in my scrapbook of me at the starting line with a '34 Ford and a '46 Ford and a '46 Chevy. I got pictures of a guy in a belly tanker that had a Ford flathead with a couple of 5-gallon Blitz cans for coolant, one on each side. I just ran the one time out there. I think I finished second in class. I don't remember. While I was out there, I visited Harmon-Collins. I used to use their cams. I left my distributor there for their ignition expert there, Bud Curtin, I didn't even know they were into the stuff at the time. It was an old Delco-Remy, what I called a two-phase. . . . It fired off of two coils with increased saturation time on the ignition and you had a real hot spark. The cam was well worn. He ran it up on his test rig while I was there. Luckily I had the stock distributor. I put it in and left that there. They reground it and shipped it back to me when I got back to Illinois.
Jim Verden,
telepone interview with
Mel Bashore, August 11, 2017
Jim Verden and his buddies from Illinois in California on their trip in 1951. Right to left: Jim Verden (wearing dark glasses), Gordon Potter, John Stone, unidentified friend of Gordie Potter. Courtesy of Jim Verden
Jim Verden and his buddies under the hood of Jim's 1941 Cadillac at the Santa Ana Drag Strip in 1951. Jim has his foot on the bumper, gapping a spark plug. John Stone (rear to camera) and Gordie Potter (facing camera). Courtesy of Jim Verden
Jim Verden on the starting line in his 1941 Cadillac, racing against a 1946 Ford at the Santa Ana Drag Strip in 1951. Courtesy of Jim Verden
Jim Verden on the starting line in his 1941 Cadillac, racing against a 1946 Chevy at the Santa Ana Drag Strip in 1951. Courtesy of Jim Verden
Jim Verden on the starting line in his 1941 Cadillac, racing against a 1934 Ford at the Santa Ana Drag Strip in 1951. Courtesy of Jim Verden
Jim's Cadillac, running classy-looking Vogue white wall tires, making a run at the Santa Ana Drag Strip in 1951. Courtesy of Jim Verden
Santa Ana Drag Strip, 1951. The chopped coupe #666 (sporting the "mark of the beast" number from Revelation 13:18) set the top speed of the day with a run of 127 MPH. Courtesy of Jim Verden
Ford flathead engine flanked by two 5-gallon Blitz cans in a belly tanker at Santa Ana Drag Strip in 1951. Courtesy of Jim Verden
Santa Ana Drag Strip, 1955
I took my '50 Ford that had a '55 Cad engine down to Southern California. While I was down there, I raced it at Santa Ana. I drove down there in this car. I drove it every day. I took first place and got a trophy. I have a picture of the starting line. There was four cars in a row, taking off at the same time, going down the drag strip. They wanted to tear me down because they thought I was illegal. I said, "For a trophy, I'm not going to tear my engine down. I'm on vacation. And if you want, you can keep the damn trophy." But they gave it to me anyhow. They were kind of pissed off because my car ran so good. It was in 1955 that I drove my car down to Southern California. It was at the track that the Bean Bandits ran at all the time.
Jim Beardslee,
telephone interview with
Mel Bashore, September 27, 2017
Four cars race off the line at Santa Ana in 1955. Courtesy of Jim Beardslee
Santa Ana Drag Strip, 1958
I did not race here, but in early 1958 I was in the meager pit crew for Denny Weinberg and his "Coast Grain Special," a Chrysler-powered Kurtis 500. Denny was a bit of a show-off and had flown his new Beechcraft Twin Bonanza from Fullerton to Orange County, while a couple of us lackeys schlepped the Kurtis down from Norwalk. The Kurtis consistently turned 11 second times. A mouthy owner of a new Corvette challenged Denny to a race. Denny accepted and even offered to spot the Corvette 100 yards. The officials complied (I doubt any track would do this today) and the Corvette was spotted and given his own starter. The Kurtis won rather handily.
Jack Barnhart
Jack Barnhart at the wheel of Denny Weinberg's Kurtis 500. Courtesy of Jack Barnhart
Denny Weinberg's Kurtis 500. Courtesy of Jack Barnhart
Dick Graham and Jack Barnhart standing next to Denny Weinberg's Kurtis 500. Courtesy of Jack Barnhart
"Boo" (third from left), Ed Iskenderian (dark glasses), and Tony Sampo (chief mechanic) by Denny Weinberg's Kurtis 500 at Bonneville in 1958. Courtesy of Jack Barnhart
Denny Weinberg's Chrysler-Devin in 1959. Jack Barnhart is looking for any film or photos that Dean Moon might have taken of Denny's Devin at El Mirage prior to August 1960. Jack wrote: "I watched as Dean took home movies of Denny's Devin, which replaced the Kurtis. His trip through the mile trap was something to behold." Courtesy of Jack Barnhart
Santa Maria
Santa Maria Dragway, 1953
I was there at the start. Santa Maria opened in 1953. I, along with the Cal Poly Roadster Club, dug the postholes down the strip sides, spring 1953.
Don Jensen
Doug King (far lane), a member of the Hayward Head Hunters, in his flathead dragster at Santa Maria drag race meet in 1956. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Santa Rosa
Cotati Drag Strip, 1956
Cotati in 1956 was a rough WWII airstrip. I only went once. I had just installed an Olds motor in Hayward Head Hunter buddy Donn Blount's '39 Ford coupe. Donn later was a top fuel driver. We won C Gas that day! But I saw one of the most exotic dragsters ever! The Mohoney Brothers. As close as I can describe, it was a circle track midget, lengthened 10 or 12 inches with a full-sized flathead. Its weight was just over 600 pounds. Ran high 120s. When the day was over, their short-bed pickup had two 2x12s sticking out the back. Four people picked the dragster up and set it in back of the truck!!
Don Jensen
Scott's Valley
Sky Park Airport, 1949
Drag race meet held at Sky Park Airport in Scott's Valley in 1949. Courtesy of Don Jensen
New Jerusalem Air Field, 1950
I ran my first race at Tracy in September 1950.
[From a March 1990 interview with Bob Cress, Jensen continued]:
[The airfield was in the] middle of the Tomatos! Top time Woody Lee, Oakland, 115 mph, a track roadster. Stock class '50 Caddy with stickshift. Timing was by two rubber hoses run by Sam Crooks, a turntable with a paper disk. First hose started a needle, second hose stopped it. Compare marks to a chart to get time. Actually worked well.
Don Jensen
Vaca Valley Raceway, 1958-59
Vaca Valley in 1958 had new pavement, but sometimes there was lots of wind! It ran north to south. The shutoff was in a 20-foot cut. Windy? Just run the other way. They did not even move the clocks. I only brought my twin-engined dragster once because the wind was so bad, They called it off. Later that year, I went to watch. A friend from high school and former Hayward Head Hunter, Eugene "Red" Case, was driving Clark Cagle's slingshot. He did not shut off! He hit a hay rake. Red was not killed,
but passed a week later from pneumonia. In the summer of 1959, I ran the M&R Willys A Gas Supercharged coupe at 129mph. There were no dragsters, so I made Top Eliminator. On the first run, I beat a 150mph Hot Roadster. Next I faced a 120mph competition coupe. But my engine did not run under 3000 rpm. I was ahead halfway when my engine quit! It was our only chance to win Top Eliminator with a street coupe. I let out the clutch on the return road. No fuel pressure! Sid Masters, who loved to tinker, fessed up. He changed the pressure adjuster on the Hilborn pump, something Hilborn says NEVER touch!!!!
Don Jensen
Art Chrisman smokes the tires at Vaca Valley Raceway in 1958. Courtesy of Don Jensen
Winters Airstrip, 1954
I went to the 1/2-mile drags at Winters in July 1954. It was a big deal, a big turnout. The top time and top eliminator went to Scotty's Ardun Ford belly tank from San Bernadino, California. Most of the other dragsters ran out of gear at 135-140mph. No quick-changes!! On my 20th birthday, it was the first time out with my new Cad-engined '40 Ford. I turned 116mph. At that time and place, there were no motels. Most of us slept on the ground!!!
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How beautiful are these nude courts?! Can you believe I don't actually own a pair of nude shoes. Guess it's because I spend most of my life in black opaques and not much time bare legged. I have taupe but not a true nude and these are just perfect. I have been braver this year and gone bare legged a few times but the weather has most definitely been against me, I can't ever remember being able to wear tights in July!! Anyway I digress. I love these shoes and think they will look perfect with my nude sequin dress from Topshop so they have been added to my wishlist!
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|Position an object using the rulers and guides
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Wild strawberries in warm strawberry juice with mascarpone sorbet
A kitchen needs a network of suppliers. What would chefs do without the tireless farmers and gardeners, mushroom gatherers, and fishermen returning with the daily catch? The supplier and the chef must have a perfectly interdependent and mutually beneficial relationship. I still remember the wild strawberries waiting for me in the morning when I arrived at the Louis XV. There they were, these tiny fruits from the woods, carefully placed on the table… precious gems nestled protectively in soil and leaves.
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Prepare the mascarpone sorbet
- 1 organic or untreated lemon
- 1 cup (200 g) superfine sugar
- 1 1/2 cups (350 ml) water
- 4 1/2 oz (125 g) fromage blanc (20% or 0% fat)
- mascarpone
Step 1: Prepare the strawberries and juice
The day before, put the bowl of an ice cream maker into the freezer. Wash and hull the strawberries and place in a heatproof bowl. Sprinkle with the sugar and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 24 hours.
Place the bowl of strawberries in a bain-marie (water bath). Cook for 1 hour without removing the plastic wrap. Position a chinois over a bowl, and drain the strawberries for 15 minutes to obtain the juice. Do not press down on the fruit, as this is not a coulis.
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A new authentication step introduced by Twitter last week could potentially be abused by hackers, according to new research.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Mandatory data breach notification introduced in Australia
Mandatory data breach notification will soon be a reality in Australia, with new legislation being introduced into government by attorney-general Mark Dreyfus.
US weapon designs exposed in cyber attack
A new report prepared by the American Defense Science Board (DSB) for the Pentagon has detailed how data relating to advanced weapons systems has been compromised.
Mandatory Data Breach Notification
With the discussion again starting about Australia's position on Mandatory Data Breach Disclosure (http://bit.ly/1avVg7H), we presented the following to the government in 2012 when RFC was opened in regards to this potential legislation. What are your thoughts?
The following are our [Securus Global] thoughts on Mandatory Data Breach Notification, in response to the Discussion Paper: Australian Privacy Breach Notification (Oct, 2012).
Organisations most likely to be affected by the introduction of such laws also tend to already have better information security and privacy policies in place.
Where we are coming from: If you have good practices and controls in place, you're probably also more likely to detect a breach and would, under these new laws, have to openly disclose. (Fair enough).
Firms focus on antivirus and antimalware software
Many companies around the world have a 'mature' level of antivirus and antimalware software protecting their ICT networks, according to a new report from Microsoft.
National Cyber Security Awareness Week
May 20-24 in Australia marks the National Cyber Security Awareness Week for this year, a timely reminder for organisations to strengthen their vulnerability management.
Australians lax about online security
If your organisation has yet to undertake a security audit, the latest research from online money transfer company PayPal may give you some added motivation.
How tech-savvy is your organisation?
When it comes to leveraging new technology, is your company at the forefront of the movement
or are you hanging back at the edge?
Yahoo Japan breach exposes user information
Up to 22 million user login names may have been exposed during a breach at Yahoo Japan, in news that highlights the importance of having an up to date vulnerability management plan.
Three hackers sentenced to prison
Three members of a 'hacktivist' group have been sentenced to a total of six years in prison for a hacking spree which affected numerous victims.


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Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Why I Missed Friday's Posting
There are eight of us with the adults and the two grand-babies. Daimon is three and Keith is eight months. I'm quite confident my son-in-law is not always sure what to do with me but he's an excellent sport in putting up with my eccentricities. I did warn him when he was dating Jessica that if he didn't like me, he should perhaps run. He didn't. He makes her laugh and that's fabulous. I'm looking forward to seeing how they age together.
We had the boys to ourselves one night while their parents escaped for some alone time to celebrate their ninth anniversary. They - the boys - were very well behaved... of course.
When I was a little girl and we would visit my Dad's family, we'd sometimes walk the mile into town to go to the general store and buy soda pop and jaw breakers so it was especially fun for me to take my oldest grandson to the candy store and let him buy something with his own money.
While he was here, Keith started sitting up. It's nice to share one of those first. With Daimon, he rolled over for the first time at Grandma and Grandpa's house.
The pond in our back yard was quite fascinating. Grandpa and Daimon are having lunch while watching the ducks and the turtles. We also spent a lot of time looking at the baby flowers (buds) and watering them.
Howard had a particularly difficult weekend with his health which makes pictures like these even more special. Daimon is making wrapping paper for Jessica's Mother's Day present.
There are a lot of men in my life. At left, all the boys. At right, the uncles and the grand-babies. And below, me and my babies. I have wonderful children. I'm very proud of them and delighted that we have a good relationship. For me, that's ultra important.
Monday, I literally spent on the couch re-energizing. Today is my throw the rest of the rocks day so I'm about to head outside and work on the final garden bed. Howard suggested that I mow the lawn instead but I told him the lawn would bug him and not me and he would therefore find a way to get it done if I didn't... however... the rocks would bug me and I'd have to look at them for the next month or longer so I needed to get them done before my leg appointment on Friday. I have a list for the week that includes throwing the rocks, grocery shopping, cleaning house, and starting some knitting projects for the sit still period. It'll work. I am determined to be good and get this leg thing over with.
Talk soon - Myrna
Grateful - family... and 11.4 pounds lost
P.S... I'm wearing Katherine's Vogue 8691 top and Marcy's Vogue 9060 skirt
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- AnonymousMay 10, 2016 at 11:46 AM
Myrna- what a lovely family you have! You are blessed, but, of course, you already know that. I hope all your prep work gets done so you can rest that leg and hip! Take care. Hugs, CharmionReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks. I'm quite biased but I do my family is amazing. Regarding the chores, I'm going with whatever gets done, gets done and after that it's resting time.Delete
A beautiful family. So nice that you could all be together.ReplyDeleteReplies
It was a really wonderful visit and Mother's Day. I'm grateful.Delete
Lovely to see you all together. I am so enjoying your new adventure.ReplyDelete
You look ravishing! Yes, you have a great family and it's a pleasure to meet them in picture. Gotta say though, you are the shining star of your wonderful family, teaching them how to live an intentional life.ReplyDeleteReplies
What a lovely compliment. Thank you.Delete
I am a 'newbie' to your blog..I started reading it just about the time you were moving and fell down the stairs!!! Scary! So, when I didn't see a post on Friday I went into "Mom Worry Mode." So glad that it was lovely family time that kept you occupied! I am making some major changes in my life right now and your journey has been so reassuring for me, thank you.ReplyDeleteReplies
LOL - falling was not my shining moment and has certainly changed the flow of these past months. I'm hoping if I'm really good after the procedure on Friday that things will normalize soon.Delete
I'm glad my journey is reassuring. I wish you all the best with the changes you're making. The hardest part for me was actually making the decision. After that, things flowed together and while it was a risk, it was one that needed to be taken if I was going to survive. I'm really looking forward to seeing what God unfolds over the next weeks and months. I've been here eight months today and it feels like I've always been here.


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Tyndale Authors Speak About the Election
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 – 3:05 PM
Dinesh D'Souza, a new Tyndale author, wrote this article called "Talk vs. Action: Obama vs. Palin" for the National Review Online. With Sarah Palin's speech tonight at the Republican National Convention, some of you might be interested in D'Souza's response to some of the criticisms surrounding Palin. Check out the article here: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTk1OTc2ZGVlNjg2NmU1YTlkMGJjZjk5OGEzMzIxYjA
Tyndale is publishing the softcover of D'Souza's bestselling book What's So Great About Christianity? this November.
Joel Rosenberg, author of Epicenter 2.0 and Dead Heat will also be on Glenn Beck TV tonight to discuss the election and if Barack is ready to lead.


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Recruitment of Scientific & Technical Officer – 'D' IUCAA 2017
The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics is an autonomous institution set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India to promote the nucleation and growth of active groups in astronomy and astrophysics at Indian universities. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics aims to be a centre of excellence within the university sector for teaching, research and development in astronomy and astrophysics.
- Educational requirements: At least B.E./M.Sc./MCA/ or equivalent degree in Physics / Computer Science or a related field with 6 years' experience or M.E. with 4 years' experience Or Ph.D. with 2 years' experience in high level Research/ Development activity of relevance to IUCAA. At least two years' experience in system administration in linux/unix environment, including HPC cluster system. Familiarity with HPC hardware and Data Centre infrastructure as well as fluency in using unix scripting language is essential. Managing and configuring network hardware and service protocols in a LAN environment is desirable.
- Job responsibilities: Managing and planning computing infrastructures (high performance/throughput computing facilities and several auxiliary services) for gravitational wave science at IUCAA and for LIGOIndia. Also provide support for 24×7 uptime and technical assistance to the users.
- No of vacancies: 01
- Age limit: 40 years (Relaxation for SC/ST/OBC & PH as per Govt. Of India norms)
- Address: Pune University Campus, Ganeshkhind, Pune, Maharashtra 411007
- Pay Scale: PB-3 – Rs. 15600-39100 + Grade Pay of Rs. 6600/-
- Last date: 15/12/2017
- Website Address:http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/
- Contact Us: Pune University Campus, Ganeshkhind, Pune, Maharashtra 411007


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OGDEN — DaVinci Academy of Science and the Arts is renovating and opening a new building to house elementary school students.
In May, DaVinci Academy purchased the vacant Ogden Preparatory Academy Middle School building at 215 22nd St. for $2.7 million.
Deb Neal, the school's community outreach director, said $500,000 has gone into renovating the building and while they're a little behind schedule, most of the changes are cosmetic — such as new carpet, repairing windows and adding shelving, sinks and water fountains in classrooms.
"One of the things we pride ourselves in is having a downtown presence," she said. "Sure, it would have been a lot easier for me to go out and build a brand new building."
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Previously, DaVinci had a "Little DaVinci" building for kindergarten through fourth-grade students. The larger DaVinci Academy building held grades five through 12 and a distance education program for kindergarten through sixth grade.
Neal said the addition of "Middle DaVinci" will house grades one through six.
They're calling it Middle DaVinci because while middle school-aged students aren't attending, Little DaVinci will house kindergarten students and the distance education program nearby at at 2221 Grant Ave., and the largest, main building at 2033 Grant Ave. will continue to serve grades seven through 12.
The two-story Middle DaVinci will house about 340 students with lower grades on the first floor and fourth, fifth and sixth grades above. Classrooms will include high-tech interactive white boards.
"We make decisions based on student needs," Neal said. "There isn't a single decision where it isn't a student-centered decision."
Ogden Prep Principal Amie Campbell said they rented the building from Academica West, a charter school management company, until about four years ago when Ogden Prep moved into its own newly-constructed campus at 1415 Lincoln Ave. The old middle school has been vacant since.
Neal said the building has large, external windows throughout and DaVinci high school students might get the chance to design and paint a mural on the concrete floor of the entryway.
"It's just a nice, natural, organic learning environment," she said.
School starts Aug. 21 but teachers were still working alongside construction workers Tuesday, Aug. 10.
Erika Kortman, the school's director, used to be housed in the Little DaVinci building and said she's excited to be in a building she feels will fit their needs.
"It's had its bumps, its ups and downs, but you have to smile and say it's going to happen," she said. "That's been my philosophy."
The school will open without a finished playground, but Neal said they're turning it into a learning opportunity and plan on letting the school's students design it. For now, they'll use the small concrete space and basketball hoops, or travel back and forth to the Little DaVinci playground nearby.
Neal said the school fosters a culture of getting out into the community and students are used to field trips, whether they're nearby or not.
"Our kids are all over town," she said. "We're down by the river. We walk to the Egyptian Theater."
Once Middle DaVinci opens, the school will begin renovating two science classrooms in the secondary school building with more STEM-focused technology, Executive Administrator Fred Donaldson said.
The move will also give Little DaVinci the room to offer a Kindergarten Academy in partnership with the YMCA.
DaVinci offers half-day kindergarten and the academy will offer supplemental learning activities for those children to attend for the other half of the day.
Contact education reporter Anna Burleson at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter at @AnnagatorB or like her on Facebook at Facebook.com/BurlesonReports.


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